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by karim79 3y ago
There needs to be a a new button on the various social media channels. One click and it fills a reply with: "One can advocate for the Palestinian State and the rights of its people, seeking a peaceful and fair resolution to the conflic
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by karim79 3y ago
Neato Robotics, what a shame. I LOVE my Neato botvacs. I'm going to have to preserve them in a 90% saline solution and freeze them at -24C now, along with my Nokia Communicator with a working installation of Doom on it. I'll sell
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by karim79 3y ago
> When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. Meaning that a profound analysis on data is a must. Weird to see these notes on the front page of HN, just literally two hours after I spoke about the exact poi
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by karim79 3y ago
Side note: Xanthan Gum is an incredibly awesome stabiliser which 'professionalizes' home-made chili sauces by giving it an even texture and consistency. Just take care to use the right amount and pre-dissolve it before adding it t
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by karim79 3y ago
I have read and bookmarked the Part 1, and I love your notes. I make my own chili oil, and grow my own chilis. I once had this stupid, macho, self-imposed rule that for each plant I grew, the plant must earn its right-of-passage by way of m
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by karim79 3y ago
But, but... since logically you can't prove a negative, surely then the burden of proof logical fallacy applies?
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Has this law no counter examples?
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by karim79 3y ago
Maybe they should call it LCD-GPT (Lowest Common Denominator as opposed to Liquid Crystal Display).
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by karim79 3y ago
> “Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!” So it's a run-of-the-mill, perhaps okayish LLM-based chatbot prepped with some custom instructions to
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by karim79 3y ago
So then, I suppose, the 'lethal zone' would be heavily dependant on the power of the lightning strike, the volume of the available body of water, the density of life within the water, and probably thousands of other factors. It wo
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by karim79 3y ago
> "I realized that electric eels in the Amazon River could well act as a power source, organisms living in the surrounding area could act as recipient cells, and environmental DNA fragments released into the water would become forei
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by karim79 3y ago
> When I removed loader-spinner.gif, the placeholder we display while the menu options load, the page stopped crashing. Eureka! It’s the gif! We swapped in a different gif and the page did not crash. I would love to have the original and
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by karim79 3y ago
Cool game! When I first glanced at the title of the post what sprung to mind was the good old days of gaming, particularly "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" from Broderbund[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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"tu quoque," also known as the "appeal to hypocrisy." That's probably why your comment was downvoted.
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by karim79 3y ago
This is brilliant, considering a lot of humans can't remember where they last put their wallet and car keys, in their own homes, minute/hours ago.
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by karim79 3y ago
I used to work at a fortune 500, my commute (each way) was 45 minutes in the best of conditions. 100% of my job could have been done from any location. Back-of-the-envelope calculation for how much time in a year was spent commuting (conser
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by karim79 3y ago
> What's the difference between using Stock images (generic photographs / graphics) vs Fake Ai images in a news story? Traditionally stock images have been used to add more "impact" to a story. If the Fake AI image ca
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by karim79 3y ago
As a layman, I find this extremely enlightening. Even now, (anecdotally) a lot/most people describe it as primarily a respiratory disease. From the OP article: > "Using nasal swabs and autopsy tissues from affected patients and
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by karim79 3y ago
Similar thread from March: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30546986
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I want to sign up for this, but I will need at least 150 seats on the "Buy The Site" plan. The per-account pricing at that tier is fine, but I find it frustrating that I'll be forced to register 150 separate accounts on behal
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by karim79 3y ago
> The United Kingdom is experiencing a dramatic outbreak—unprecedented in scale and magnitude—of diarrheal illnesses from the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium, aka Crypto. > The outbreak has splattered into almost every region of a
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"Well, they're the ones who started this!" Discuss.
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As a bootstrapper of a German-based SaaS company myself, I've gotta say that I quite enjoyed the article. I would like to weigh in on specific parts of the article with some quick, if not exhaustive, comments: > Bootstrapping is tou
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by karim79 3y ago
For years, I've dreamed of a gadget that would interrupt me, but only do so once my brain's activity levels have reached an adequate threshold of meditation, relaxation, or even contentment. The gadget of my dreams would then disr
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by karim79 3y ago
I have Copilot. It's okay I suppose, but nothing game-changing at least for my purposes. It's great at DRY stuff within the codebases in which I work. I achieved similar results using Llama 2 running on my Mac Mini M2 Pro, which
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> "Essentially, CoPilot is seen as a tool that can improve overall personal and professional capabilities, contributing to a richer and more efficient daily life." I'll believe that when it can take my highly energetic dog
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"When scientists craft their scientific conclusions to political ends, they are no longer practicing science" hear! hear!
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Indeed, and the buttons on it (power, mic on/off, volume up/down etc) will start failing or doubling the input as soon as the tiniest bit of dust breaches the gaps, thanks to the latest-and-greatest Tiger Moth mechanism which is d
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by karim79 3y ago
"The box jellyfish actively hunts its prey (small fish), rather than drifting as do true jellyfish. They are strong swimmers, capable of achieving speeds of up to 1.5 to 2 metres per second or about 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph).[19
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by karim79 3y ago
They licensed Aurora engine from Bioware way back in the day of Witcher 1, then developed their own (Red Engine). I guess Red Engine has lots of Bioware DNA going on.

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